Excerpt from Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, Vol. 2: Collected and Edited, With Introductions and Notes
After about eighteen months" delay, the editor has at length the satisfaction of offering to the public a second and third volume, which, with a fourth in the press, will complete, so far as his present intentions go, this collection of the Early Popular Poetry of his native country.
The extraordinary and almost incredible negligence, with which such descriptions of literary labour have been for the most part executed hitherto, has rendered his task more onerous than he at all anticipated at setting out. He regrets to be obliged to include in this general criticism many names of high repute in the antiquarian world.
The notes are absolutely without pretension to any method or importance. As was stated in the prefatory remarks to the first volume, they are simply and purely such as occurred to the editor in the course of his desultory reading, and as, in preparing the various texts for the press, he conceived might be of service in elucidating or illustrating the passages, to which they are attached.
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